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DARK VICTORY WINS STAKES • y/hyte Filly Scores Neck Victory at Blue Bonnets Track. » Daughter of Traumer — Sun Vive First in Blue Bonnets Inaugural Attraction — Stefan Jr. Second. » MONTREAL, Que, June 13.— Dark Victory, a brown filly, by Traumer-— Sun Vive, Which races for Jack Whyte, one of Canadas foremost trainers, defeated a band of the best two-year-olds racing in Canada when she won the Kindergarten Stakes at Blue Bonnets this afternoon. F. A. Temples Stefan Jr. was second, beaten by a neck, and then came Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Teatime. another length and a half back. The winner and Sun Teatime were coupled as the Whyte-Kilmer entry. Today marked the twenty-third running Of the Kindergarten Stakes, and a field of ten went to the post. The Whyte-Kilmer entry was always favorite and went to the post an odds-on choice. Dark Victory had the inside post position, and when the start came got off in front. She had a lead of a length before they went a sixteenth, but on the turn out of the back stretch Howee and Stefan Jr. caught and passed her. Mc-Ginnis then took back and gave his mount a breathing spell. At the head of the stretch he came to the outside and joined the leaders. All three were under punishment. A furlong from the finish Dark Victory again took command. Stefan Jr. was hanging on with great courage, but Howee quit. The first two fought it out all through the stretch, and at the finish Sun Teatime was going fastest of all. When the start came the Kilmer filly dwelt and was slow to find her stride. Phillips, in order to avoid interference, kept her on the outside until the far turn where he cut across to the inside rail. She closed a big gap, but the effort told when the final drive came. The net value of the stakes to the winner was ,225. Today marked the opening of the first summer meeting of the Montreal Jockey Club and an immense gathering turned out to witness the sport. The attendance was by far the largest at Blue Bonnets in a long time. Racing conditions were ideal and interesting sport was in order. The club house had a capacity crowd and the gathering in this part of tho enclosure was made up of Montreals elite, many prominent in social and government circles being present. Kenneth Dawes, the clubs new president and his associates were more than pleased with the outlook for a successful meeting. Speculation was keener than usual. The "Daily Double pari-mutuels dual bet, which Was introduced at Blue Bonnets for the first time, proved popular with patrons. The pay off in todays double was 5.50. The Blue Bonnets Handicap, which was provided as an additional attraction furnished a stirring contest and the Mount Royal Stables Marine was winner over C. V. Whitneys Rideaway by a scant half length. There were only three starters and in the early stages French Lass raced into a long lead. Marine and Rideaway were in hand. Making the turn into the home stretch the last two moved up to the pacemaker. Rideaway, which made a wide turn swinging for home, was out in the middle of the track. When it came to a finish Mann outrode Leishman and this in a great measure was responsible for Marines victory. French Lass, tiring badly at the end, was beaten Off six lengths. Grey Lag, the aged son of Star Shoot, which was a champion when carrying the colors of the Rancocas Stable, made his appearance after an absence of three years when he sported silks in the second race. This was a claiming affair, at six furlongs, in which an ordinary field went to the post. Grey Lag was ridden by jockey Drake, and when tho start came the latter pulled his mount up. He galloped along in the rear to the stretch turn, and in the final furlong was gradually gaining on the leaders. At the finish he was seventh. The old racer pulled up sound, and it looks as if he had a few winning efforts left in him if his people dont shoot too high with him. Wacket was the winner of this event. Outrun by Vacillate in the early stages, Wacket closed in resolute fashion when put to a drive, and in the final furlong gradually wore the tiring pacemaker down, and at the end won going away by a length and a half. Vacillate beat Zaidee a like distance for the place. Jack Whyte saddled another winner for the Willis Sharpe Kilmer stable when he sent the Sun Briar colt Briar Hawk to the post in the third race. This was a dash of one mile, for maidens. Briar Hawk, ridden by C. Phillips, went to the front after they had gone two furlongs and for the remainder of the race galloped under slight restraint. At the finish he had a lead of two lengths and a half over New Broom, the 5,000 yearling which races for the Eastland Farms Stable. Eight started and in the early stages Goodfellow went to the front and led by a comfortable margin until going to the half mile post, where Briar Hawk caught and passed him. When the latter tired he quit to a walk and at the finish was last but one. Nosegay finished fast in the niddle of the track. «
